"You see how things never go right when you're feeling good?" (Chapter 2, p. 63).

"It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother" (Chapter 3, p. 102).

"With your shirt off, Swieteck. You have to have your shirt off if you're on the Skins team" (Chapter 4, p. 142).

"Do you ever wonder what it's like to be so angry that you...And then something happens, and after that, everyone figures that's what you're like, and that's what you're always going to be, and so you just decide to be it? But the whole time you're thinking, Am I going to be like him? Or am I already like him? And then you get angrier, because maybe you are, and you want" (Chapter 5, p. 180).